Political cartoons are excellent ways for people to get their point across. Humor, substance, and a bit of wit is necessary for political cartoons to be effective. You find political cartoons in every newspaper (and on the state test!) so you have to be ready.
- What is the picture above for/against?
- What group of people is being represented in the picture?
- What are some negative effects of a saloon?
- What group of people are being represented in the above picture?
- What is the name of the establishments they are currently living in?
- Who is the man in the above picture? What hints give him away?
- What does this man want?
- Why is he holding hands with a bear???
- Who is the man carving the turkey? What hints give him away?
- What event in history is being portrayed above?
- Who is Teddy Roosevelt (seated) "feeding"?
- What foreign policy is being referenced above?
- Whom is the United States trying to keep out of countries like Santo Domingo?
- Who is the "captain" of this policy?
- Why are the monopolists so big? What does "fat" represent in political cartoons?
- Is the cartoonist for/against monopolists?
- Who should the Senate be run by?
- Who is the man seated talking to the "child"? Who is the "child"?
- What are all the stockings representing?
- What time period is being portrayed in the cartoon above?
- What is happening in the above cartoon?
- What is a key word on the fence to show you that a specific event is happening?
- Who is the man that is screaming?
- Who are the two men on top of the box?
- What is in the box?
- What does the YWCA stand for?
- Why are women being represented in the picture? What are the importance of women during WWI?
- What are victory bonds?
- How do victory bonds work?
- Why did the cartoonist choose to have a young, child-like girl asking her father to buy a victory bond?
- What is trying to be stopped here?
- How can victory bonds stop it?